To hide from the bin men?

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I'm usually out when our bins are collected but due to Christmas at home today. Our bins have been collected and it made remember that my Mum used to make my siblings and I hide from the bin men when we were younger because she was embarrassed at how much rubbish she put out. We would have to put the tv or lights off and generally pretend to not be in.

Why? Did anyone else's family have this rule?

Nope. In fact I make a point of sticking my head out the door with dd3 and waving. She loves it.

What? Why? No. Can't imagine such a thing. In fact if I have more than my bin will take I jog up the path and sweet talk them into taking it.

Not for the bin men. I had to hide if people knocked at door. I remember our elderly next door neighbour even looking through the window 'lou, lou, hello can you see me?' I can't remember how old I was, prob, 10. We were left home alone during school hols, so I think that was why.
There is no way my kids would hide, 'mum!!!! There's someone at the door!' in a very short voice.

*shouty not short.

Ha ha! Just my dear old mum then.

She would also be embarrassed about winning too many things. So if there was a raffle at school and we won more than one prize she would be mortified.

I've never hid from the binman who heard of anyone doing this, it sounds really strange.

I thought you were going to say you were embarrassed at the amount of bottles you have put out

Our recycling bin is full...i had to take a spade to it yesterday to crush down the stuff

But I'm peed off with bin men, came super early today, peeing down and dh forgot to wheel bin 10ft up the drive this morning when he went to work. They walked on by, completely oblivious to the mountain of rubbish on my drive. Grrr trip to the dump needed now.

Our bin men don't take bottles sadly- I probably would be embarrassed about that!

The only time I've hidden from the bin men was after I forgot to put the bin out & had to run out with it in my dressing gown just as they arrived.

I hid for a couple of weeks after that.

I never see my bin people as they come super early in the morning I think one you have your bin/rubbish in away that its easy for them to collect they are not going to care what you are throwing out.

i think she might have been avoiding giving them a Christmas tip.... do people still do this? Know it was expected when I was young....

How odd, i'm pretty sure that the bin men don't care what you put out as long as you abide by the rules which here means that the bin lid must be fully closed, they won't empty an over flowing bin

Nope, I went to the tip with about ten bin bags full on the 27th my wheelie bin is quite empty.

I was not the only one.

MN can be so British sometimes, you're all absolutely mad

My mum used to 'tip' the bin men and the milk man for years. A fiver in an envelope with the words 'Enjoy a Christmas pint from Mrs Maddiemookinsoldmum at number 44'.
Without fail, her dustbin was always carried up the six steps that led up to her front door for the best part of 20 years, nobody else had that done.
Her milkman cancelled her last bill (about £17 outstanding) the week she died.

Nope, DC makes me stand at the window holding the blinds open for him to look at the lorry driving past, turning around and then driving back past again.

I did used to hide from the window cleaner when I was at home though. Probably would now if I had one!

No but I currently hide from the people who pick up our recycling because I'm afraid they're going to visibly have a moan about how I sort my recycling.

I always make a point of seeing ours at Christmas and saying thank you. We've got 2 illegal extra bins that are always emptied all year as we tip well at Christmas .

We all three wave 😊
Lovely bin collectors we have round here. Same with the posties. Love where we live!

Not from the bin men, but DM and I were afraid of the window cleaners and used to crouch in this one spot on the landing where they couldn’t see us, laughing hysterically.

I have hidden before but only because fil used to work our round and he'd want to come in and I couldn't be arsed with a chat!

No hiding here. Both DS’s like to stand at the door and wave and have a bit chat with them. When they get to the top of the street, they reverse back down again, past our house then toot the horn on their Wayne out of the estate. The kids love it, and the bin men get a box of biscuits every Christmas as a thanks for entertaining my DC

No. I've never hidden from the bin men. Why would I?

I do though, have to make sure my labrador dog is on a good tight lead if we are out when the bin lorry is coming up the road. A few years ago I allowed some of the team to give him a couple of the dog biscuits that they apparently store in the cab. It solved the problem of him being defensive towards them (perhaps thinking they were nicking our stuff). The trouble was, he then became far too excited to see them every week, and seemed convinced that the bin lorry was a giant dog biscuit dispenser especially for him. So I then found myself going in the opposite direction to ensure that he couldn't try to chase it.